When I heard that Arrested Development would officially return nearly seven years after its cancellation, like a time-abiding Jesus, I was both ecstatic and worried. The experience of AD was short and sweet – a steady crescendo that built upon its jokes episode-after-episode to side-splitting hilarity- but it left off on such a high note that that former glory seems nearly impossible to re-attain.
My only concern with this revival is that they are forced to start from somewhat of a clean slate and will spend some time re-building the carefully laid house-of-jokes that defined the whole program. My gut tells me that Mitch Hurtwitz and Co will, however, just launch right back in, making the show a bit of a sink-or-swim experience. Honestly, I think it has enough of a following and certainly the hilarious history to warrant just picking up where they left off and I think going outside of the regular networks will work in it’s favor.
This newest slew of character posters attempts to clue people into to the fact that the new episodes will be appearing on NetFlix by using some of these character’s classic one-liners.
Arrested Development stars Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor, Portia De Rossi, Michael Cera, Will Arnett, Tony Hale, Alia Shawkat, Jessica Walter and David Crossand will air exclusively on Netflix with all 15 episodes on Monday, May 25.
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